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About

ALA's Office for Literacy and Outreach Services (OLOS) provides resources to library and information workers who serve traditionally underrepresented groups. These groups include people with disabilities, among others; see the OLOS Services to People with Disabilities web page for a current list of resources.

Blogs and other online resources

Disability.gov is an award-winning federal Web site that contains disability-related resources on programs, services, laws and regulations to help people with disabilities lead full, independent lives. With just a few clicks, visitors can find critical information on a variety of topics, including benefits, civil rights, community life, education, emergency preparedness, employment, housing, health, technology and transportation.

The Red Notebook is a starting point for libraries to look up for information regarding the deaf community and library services.

Deaf America Reads is a two-year program sponsored by the National Literary Society of the Deaf (NLSD), a reading promotion partner of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. This is a "One Book" Reading Promotion Project called "Deaf America Reads" and runs from March 13, 2008-March 13, 2010. The book selected for "one book" is Moments of Truth: Robert R. Davila, the Story of a Deaf Leader, by Harry G. Lang, Oscar P. Cohen and Joseph E. Fischgrund (Rochester, NY: RIT Press, 2007.) The program purpose is to broaden and deepen an appreciation of reading and to compel the national deaf community to share experience while reading the same book.

The National Association of the Deaf site includes sections on legal rights (captioning, housing, employment, etc.) and advocacy issues (air travel, education, infant screening, etc.).

Roads To Learning: Final Report, 1996-2001 Roads To Learning: The Public Libraries' Learning Disabilities Initiative was a grant project administered from 1996 to 2001 by the Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies (ASCLA), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), and funded by a series of grants from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. The primary goal of the project was to provide information about learning disabilities to the general public through public libraries, while increasing the capacity of public libraries to serve their communities in this area.